WEBVTT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER CHRISTINEPAE SPOKE TO HIS LOVED ONES INABIQUIU. REPORTER: WE ARE INSIDE BODE'SGENERAL STORE WHERE MANUELSERRANO WAS SHOT AND YOU CAN SEEA MEMORIAL WHERE HE IS KEPT INMEMORY AND WHERE PEOPLE CANDONATE TO THE SERRANO FAMILY.BUT THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST SAYDON'T WANT TO REMEMBER HOW HEDIED, BUT HOW HE LIVED.>> I WANT TO REMEMBER HIM THEWAY HE TREATED ME AND OTHERS.REPORTER: AND THE WAY MANUELSERRANO TREATED OTHERS WASEXCEPTIONAL, ACCORDING TO HISLONGTIME FRIEND AND CO-WORKER,DEXTER TRUJILLO.HE WAS AWAYS DOING THINGSTHAT PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO DO,HE WOULDYOU KNOW, FIX DOORS, BROKENWINDOWS, PLASTER, WHATEVER HADTO BE DONE.REPORTER: NOT ONLY WAS SERRANO AHANDY MAN, HE WAS A WELL KNOWNAND WELL RESPECTED INYOUNGSVILLE, WHERE HE LIVED ANDSERVED AS MAYORDOR AT SAN PEDRCHURCH.SERRANO WAS ALSO A BIG CORONADOLEOPARDS FAN, AND SERVED AS ASCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR JEMEMOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.IN ABIQUIU, SERRANO WORKED AS ASECURITY GUARD AT THE GEORGIAO'KEEFFE MUSEUM FOR MORE THANTHREE DECADES.HE WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHOIF HE SAID HE WOULD DO THINGS,HE WOULD DO THEM AND NOT ONLYWITH PRIDE, BUT BE THERE EARLY.REPORTER: SERRANO WAS ALSO APROUD FAMILY MAN, A FATHER OFTWO DAUGHTERS, AND GRANDFATHERTO THREE AGAIN KIDS -- THREEGRANDKIDS.>> THERE WERE HIS PRIDE AND JOY.REPORTER: SO IT CAME AS ANIMMENSE SHOCK TO SERRANO'SFAMILY AND THE CLOSE-KNITCOMMUNITY WHEN THEY RECEIVEDNEWS OF SERRANO'S MURDER.>> WHEN YOU LIVE IN A CLOSECOMMUNITY, YOU HEAR OF THINGSGOING ON IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD, BUT YOU NEVER THINK IT'S GOINGTO BE IN YOUR FRONT YARD.REPORTER: SERRANO'S FUNERAL ISSCHEDULED AT THE SAN PEDROCEMETERY TOMORROW.REPORTING FROM ABIQUIU,

A tightknit community is mourning the death of 59-year-year Manuel Serrano, who was fatally shot at a convenience store Thursday. Bode’s General Store in Abiquiu now has a memorial inside. It’s where Serrano was shot while trying to put gas in his vehicle. The tragedy devastated the entire community, but those who knew Serrano best said they don't want to remember how he died, but how he lived. “I want to remember him the way he treated me and others,” longtime friend and co-worker Dexter Trujillo said. “He was always doing things that people didn't want to do. He would. You know, fix doors, broken windows, plaster -- whatever had to be done.” In addition to being a handyman, Serrano was also well-known and respected in Youngsville, where he lived and served at the San Pedro Church. Serrano was also a big Coronado High School Leopards fan and served as a school board member for Jemez Mountain Schools. In Abiquiu, Serrano worked as a security guard at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum for more than three decades. “He was the type of person who, if he said he would do things, he would do them and not only with pride, but be there early,” Trujillo said. Serrano was also a proud family man-- the father of two daughters and grandfather to three grandchildren. It came as an immense shock to Serrano's family and the close-knit community when they received news of Serrano's murder. “When you live in a close community, you hear of things going on in the outside world but you never think it's going to be in your front yard,” Trujillo said. Loved ones gathered Tuesday to say the rosary at St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church in Abiquiu. Serrano's funeral is scheduled to be held at the San Pedro Cemetery on Wednesday.

ABIQUIU, N.M. —

A tightknit community is mourning the death of 59-year-year Manuel Serrano, who was fatally shot at a convenience store Thursday.

Bode’s General Store in Abiquiu now has a memorial inside. It’s where Serrano was shot while trying to put gas in his vehicle.

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The tragedy devastated the entire community, but those who knew Serrano best said they don't want to remember how he died, but how he lived.

“I want to remember him the way he treated me and others,” longtime friend and co-worker Dexter Trujillo said. “He was always doing things that people didn't want to do. He would. You know, fix doors, broken windows, plaster -- whatever had to be done.”

In addition to being a handyman, Serrano was also well-known and respected in Youngsville, where he lived and served at the San Pedro Church.

Serrano was also a big Coronado High School Leopards fan and served as a school board member for Jemez Mountain Schools.

In Abiquiu, Serrano worked as a security guard at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum for more than three decades.

“He was the type of person who, if he said he would do things, he would do them and not only with pride, but be there early,” Trujillo said.

Serrano was also a proud family man-- the father of two daughters and grandfather to three grandchildren.

It came as an immense shock to Serrano's family and the close-knit community when they received news of Serrano's murder.

“When you live in a close community, you hear of things going on in the outside world but you never think it's going to be in your front yard,” Trujillo said.

Loved ones gathered Tuesday to say the rosary at St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church in Abiquiu. Serrano's funeral is scheduled to be held at the San Pedro Cemetery on Wednesday.